Amazon data centers used 2.5bn gallons of water in 2025
Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year / Amazon finally released annual water usage data and claims it’s actually more efficient than the others.
Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water
AI Data Centers’ Water Consumption Breaks 264 Billion Gallons in 2025 as Devastating Drought Hits Nearly 63% of U.S.
Microsoft CEO says new AI data centers use as little water annually as a restaurant — closed-loop cooling system aims to slash consumption from millions of gallons as AI infrastructure faces mounting environmental scrutiny
Data center drained 30 million gallons of water without reporting or paying for it, investigation reveals
A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months
A data center used 29 million gallons of water without a bill, while residents complained about low water pressure
AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine
Portable 3D-printed device claimed to produce enough drinking water from thin air for a family of four every day - Water from Air project says it can capture 1.6 gallons of drinking water per day
Delta agrees to pay $79 million after a plane dumped thousands of gallons of fuel over homes and schools in California during an emergency
Hackers unleash torrent from Norwegian dam, releasing 132 gallons per second for four hours | Norway links dam sabotage to pro-Russian hackers
San Antonio data centers guzzled 463 million gallons of water as area faced drought
AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers
Meta announces huge new data centers, but they could gobble up millions of gallons of water per day
How Data Centers Are Deepening the Water Crisis - The largest data centers can guzzle millions of gallons of fresh water a day. Roughly 40% of US ones, Business Insider found, are in the most water-stressed areas of the country.
New urinal designs prevent 265,000 gallons of urine splashing onto the floor
Tesla Semi fire in California took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish
